How to make your Android display gif images

 

This is the unofficial official answer I found here: Issue 3422-android-Animated GIF not working in browser-Project Hosting on Google Code

If you want to work around this with your own Android build, you'll need to modify C ++ code, rebuild, and
Reflash your phone. You'll need to make two fixes to the released sources.

1) edit the function should_use_animated_gif () in
External/webkit/WebCore/platform/graphics/android/ImageSourceAndroid. cpp (around line 217). Return true
To animate gifs.

2) Change setRGBA () in/WebCore/platform/image-decoders/ImageDecoder. h (around line 173) to call
* Dest = SkPackARGB32 (a, r, g, B );
Instead
* Dest = (a <24 | r <16 | g <8 | B );

With these changes, gifs will animated correctly on large memory devices like Droid and Nexus One.

There's no code path for animating gifs in arbitrary applications like Gallery, counter t by rewriting it to host
WebView modded as described abve.

Author: pumpkin 5793